Spinturnix kolenatii Oudemans, 1910

Sachanowicz, Konrad, Krištofík, Ján & Ciechanowski, Mateusz, 2014, Spinturnicid mites of bats in Albania - host spectrum and morphometrics as a tool of species separation, Journal of Natural History 48 (43 - 44), pp. 2661-2674 : 2670

Spinturnix kolenatii Oudemans, 1910

Records: Perlat II, 26 June 2011, 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Gizavesh, 3 July 2011, 2 ♂♂, Qafa e Thores, 12 July 2011, 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, 1 nymph; Nikgjonaj, 10 September 2012, 7 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, all from E. serotinus .

The species occurs mainly on E. nilssonii (Keyserling et Blasius, 1839) and E. serotinus , but was also found on P. pipistrellus , P. nathusii , M. oxygnathus , M. mystacinus , M. brandtii (Eversmann, 1845) , M. daubentonii , P. auritus , Vespertilio murinus and N. noctula ( Stanyukovich 1997) . Spinturnix kolenatii is distributed in Europe ( Rudnick 1960; Dusbábek 1962; Haitlinger and Walter 1997), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan ( Stanyukovich 1997), Mongolia ( Dusbábek 1966), Afghanistan ( Dusbábek 1970), Japan ( Uchikawa and Wada 1979) and Taiwan ( Prasad 1969). Our material includes 28 individuals (prevalence 100%, mean intensity 5.6, relative density 5.6), all from E. serotinus .